Jiaodontus is an extinct genus of lonchidiid cartilaginous fish which existed in Liuhuanggou, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age).[1] Fossils have been found in the Qigu Formation, China.[1] It was first named by Stefanie Klug, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner and Thomas Martin in 2010 and the type species is Jiaodontus montaltissimus.[1]
| Jiaodontus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Family: | †Lonchidiidae |
| Genus: | †Jiaodontus Klug et al., 2010 |
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References
edit- ^ a b c Stefanie Klug; Thomas Tütken; Oliver Wings; Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner; Thomas Martin (2010). "A Late Jurassic freshwater shark assemblage (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 90 (3): 241–257. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0032-2. S2CID 129236098.
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